Now that VMware NSX-T Data Center is deployed in your environment and that you are consuming its network and security services such as switching, routing, firewalling or load balancing, what about day 2 operations?
Although I'm a big advocate of API and automation, there are some operations or … [Read more...]

Time spent in airports and lounges can be used for various things, but I generally take the advantage not only to catch up on emails but also to work on things that I can "fire and forget" (such as upgrades in my lab).
Last Saturday, I missed a connection and was stuck at JFK airport for quite a … [Read more...]

Deploying an OVA/OVF is a typical operation in a vSphere environment, and VMware administrators have plenty of options for that: using the VMware Web or HTML5 clients or techniques based on OVF Tool such as PowerCLI or Ansible. Recently, I have been using the govc CLI when I had to do a basic OVA … [Read more...]

There are people playing with VMware products, others creating scripts or helping the community; you also have a completely different kind of people who are creating tools in their free time, such as Pierre. :)
After developing the vROps notification plugin that allows to send REST … [Read more...]